2007年12月21日金曜日

World News B December 21th, 2007

1. A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas, the feast of the Nativity. (Wikipedia)

2. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is what Charles Dickens described as his "little Christmas Book" and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech. The story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week and, although originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.
Contemporaries noted that the story's popularity played a critical role in redefining the importance of Christmas and the major sentiments associated with the holiday. A Christmas Carol was written during a time of decline in the old Christmas traditions. "If Christmas, with its ancient and hospitable customs, its social and charitable observances, were in danger of decay, this is the book that would give them a new lease," said English poet Thomas Hood.
(Wikipedia)

3. Mime is a theatrical medium or performance art, involving the acting out of a story by a mime artist through body motions, without use of speech. (Wikipedia)

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie

5. Christmas pudding

6. Christmas cake

7. http://static.flickr.com/31/60022315_8c3cfd9ef4.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/109/275595524_8a94d05e1f.jpg
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/2005/soirees/brussels.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/142/390688510_5e7eb9d41d.jpg

Merry Christms!!☆

2007年12月14日金曜日

World News B December 14th, 2007

3. Amnesty International is a big NGO of international influence to have a discussion qualification with the United Nations.
In comformity with an international law, it works on taht it relieve and support prisoner of conscience, the abolition of the death penalty, the protection of human rights.

4. 1http://blhrri.org/kokusai/sos/sos_3903.html
http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=3941
http://www2.amnesty.se/uaonnet.nsf/senastezope/7C5C4F033BDF835AC12573A90040B276?opendocument

2http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/53/146.html

3 I thought that this case was sad.
    ①Because father is beaten by a rotation so that the anti-government and it is added violence to Ikhtior Khamroev and he is in the damage. so, I don't know why this news is not on TV and in the newspapers.
    
4 I can't find Japanese versions of this British news story.

2007年12月7日金曜日

World News B December 16th, 2007

3.

1Beowulf of an extraordinary man saves a kingdom from the barbarian beast and obtains fame and fortune. It is "Ray Winstone" to play this position.

2This movie based on The British literature oldest hero epic.

3It is the twelfth century from the the fifth century half.

4http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E.

5A vowel sound has a short vowel / a long vowel / a diphthong and distinguishes length. In addition, you write a macron on a long letter and distinguish it from a short vowel. "y" is a vowel in the Old English. A consonant is the same as modern English, but "ð/þ" and "w" are used for as a consonant character.
(From Wikipedia)

Photo is the same 4.

6A story that one unusual man Beowulf confronts wicked creation to save the ancient Kingdom of Denmark from the crisis of the ruin by the it and obtain fame and fortune. It backed by the fantastic times wrapped in a hero and a monster, adventure and courage, money and glory.

7Beowulf dies while looking at the treasure which he won. And when the person built the big mound so that grants a wish of the King, the story is over.

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